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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
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The new Guster tracks that dropped this week from their new record. Both tracks are a vibe. Keep Going is the lead single: https://youtu.be/F78Wyr8BURw?si=sZ0zlIwaELPBiwn-
A bit of a shift in habits for me. I had a rough week at work and just wanted something loud, aggressive, and emotional, so I went for Whitechapel's The Valley. I had the pleasure of seeing them live May 23, when I went to see Archspire opening for them, and they won me over. This album, and it's sequel Kin are excellent examples of how a genre like deathcore can be pushed into something more, I guess. I'm not too well-versed in the genre, but I'd consider the current iteration of Whitechapel to be a solid introduction to jump into harder stuff with the use of clean and harsh vocals to provide a sort of narrative balance and help things make sense to new listeners. It's sort of what got me further into the genre.
In the same vein, just having a bad week and wanting music to make it better, I was listening to Signs of the Swarm, who were at the same concert. Their album Amongst the Low and Empty is absolutely bonkers with sounds/feeling I'm used to with Meshuggah, Archspire, and breakcore artists like Drumcorps and Venetian Snares, but still completely unique and worth listening to for anybody into extreme metal or weird rhythms. I never really understood the idea of music making somebody want to fuck shit up until I listened to this album during a bad day at work, it was a great release. The vocals are also absolutely bonkers, and it was another point of technique I've found fascinating.
The latest Caravan Palace album, Gangbusters Melody Club, came out Friday, and it's just good vibes all around. My favorite tracks are probably Mirrors and Portobello, but they're (almost) all quite good.
I'm just not a fan of Mad, which was the first released track, and the album opening. I find it too different in mood.
I've been enjoying listening to Fade by Alien Ant Farm this weekend.
I normally listen to a lot of metal or soundtrack stuff but Movies is a great song that tickles that nostalgia bone so I figured I'd check out their new song and found it was actually pretty good. It's short, got a catchy chorus, and the singer still sounds pretty similar to how he did 20 years ago.